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12th October 202112th March 2026

Arvus lighter landing pad terrain

Arvus Lighter on scratchbuilt landing pad terrain made from MDF and plasticard — Finished product first!

Many moons ago I was fortunate enough to get a Forge World Arvus Lighter kit on the cheap and decided over lockdown to put some colour on it. Getting to the chopper is an iconic moment in many games, and owning the equivalent 40k miniature seemed sensible. Plus, the Arvus is indisputably the best and cutest spaceship in existence, and that is scientific fact.

Having an atmospheric brick is great, but what is a spaceship without a landing pad? I still had a bunch of MDF board tiles from my Celestine Wharf build, and with no intention of building any more Celestine tiles, I figured I could press them into service as simple landing pad terrain.

27th July 202112th March 2026

Necron obelisks tomb world terrain

header saying: Necron obelisks, ominous zenos pulons from a local scenery company

As part of a recent scenery purchase from a local terrain company, I also snagged some obelisks from Wargame Model Mods’ weird and wonderful Necrotech range. I’d been meaning to do some proper weird alien terrain as a palette cleanser from all the underhive grime I’d been building, and these looked just the ticket. Tomb world terrain, coming right up!

19th July 202112th March 2026

Twiglet tube silo industrial terrain for Necromunda

banner reading: Twiglet tube silos, the most delicious abandoned fuel tower scenery ever built

Industrial necromunda silo terrain made painted in pale green and rusty brown made from twiglet tubes and sector mechanicus accessories — Finished product first!

Last week I put the finishing touches on a gang hideout in an abandoned chemical facility and I happened to have some snack tubes leftover from various Christmas indulgences. They can’t be recycled, but they can be reused, and with a few extra bits here and there, would look very nice in my weird chemical facility family as Twiglet tube silo terrain.

12th July 202112th March 2026

Industrial chem silo terrain for Necromunda

Industrial necromunda chem silo terrain painted in pale grey and rusty brown made from an MDF kit from Wargame Model Mods and customised with plastic bits — Finished product first!

I recently discovered a local terrain company called Wargame Model Mods and put an order in over lockdown. They did some of the better mdf xenos scenery on the market, and picked up one of their (very reasonably priced) Chemical Silo to see what it was like. I had a few tubular buildings of my own built from Christmas snacks, and thought this would round out the collection very nicely.

12th February 202026th March 2026

Crystal objective markers and scatter terrain

The money shot

I’ve been banging on about the Gorgon Crystals campaign a lot recently, and for it I needed some battlefield tokens to represent the.. uh… crystals. I’ve mucked about with carving crystalline structures out of plastic sprue before, but I didn’t really have the fortitude to create at least half a dozen markers out of the stuff.

Cue Bad Squiddo Games! I’ve been following their stuff for a while now, and even picked up some of their Cargo Supplies and Food Supplies kits to build my market scene (which is still lying unpainted in a box somewhere…), and knew their set of crystals terrain would be perfect.

3rd February 202026th March 2026

Old World Arcane ruins scenery

header reads arcane ruins, giving an old kit new life

I guess there’s a theme with recent MOTBs, so it’s a good time to post Arcane Ruins! Truth be told, I’ve had these ruins ready for quite some time, but having only just purchased a lovely new battle mat from Pwork Games it was a great time to get some photos done.

7th January 202027th March 2026

Ryza-pattern ruins scatter terrain

header reads 'ryza ruins, scatter terrain for the scatter terrain god'

New year, new scenery, new Ryza-pattern ruins! I’ve had a quiet spell for hobbying over the past month or so, the time I’d usually spent painting is time I spend buying cheese, eating cheese, or planning how to get 12 people round an 8-person table to eat cheese.

Luckily past me grabbed loads of photos of projects I hadn’t showcased yet, so I’ve got lots of material to work with while I get back in the hobby groove.

18th November 201928th March 2026

Asteroid scatter terrain for Rogue Trader

Asteroid fields made of cork against a starry backdrop with a battlefleet gothic frigate in the middle for scale — Finished product first!

Big rocks – mankind’s oldest foe. As much a threat to planetsiders as to voidsmen, and despite space being really really big and really really empty, asteroids do have a tendency to turn up in space battles quite a lot. Given our Rogue Trader campaign is heading back out into the wilderness, we’re likely to come across all kinds of really big rocks. Why not put some asteroid terrain together?

2nd April 201924th August 2023

MOTB: Cathedral Assault

Our Dark Heresy campaign has made it to the planet of Syracuse -a dank and miserable affair perfect for acolytes tramping around in the mud and rot. For the campaign I wanted some epic set pieces, and even put together a game board to help build the mood.

It was time to return for another brawl, this time to defend an Imperial Cathedral (or what was left of it) from rampaging Undertow during a full-blown civil war.

4th December 201824th August 2023

MOTB: Hab Block part 1

A long time ago I found myself with a HMRC-related windfall which coincided with the release of a neat-looking kickstarter for a modular mdf terrain system. I was very taken with it, especially with the Gothic Upgrade pack making it look like the creepy hive city hab block from my dreams. I dropped some cash on the project and forgot about it for a year.

Fast forward past a house move and some postage misadventures and this (very) heavy box was sitting on my proverbial bench.